The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.